Their diet consisted of fruit and they made their nests on the
ground. The Dodo bird did not fly.
The tambalacoque, also known as the "dodo tree", was
hypothesized by Stanley Temple to have been eaten from by Dodos,
and only by passing through the digestive tract of the dodo could
the seeds germinate; he claimed that the tambalacocque was now
nearly extinct due to the dodo's disappearance. He force-fed
seventeen tambalacoque fruits to Wild Turkeys and three germinated.
Temple did not try to germinate any seeds from control fruits not
fed to turkeys so the effect of feeding fruits to turkeys was
unclear. Temple also overlooked reports on tambalacoque seed
germination by A. W. Hill in 1941 and H. C. King in 1946, who found
the seeds germinated, albeit very rarely, without
abrading.[17][18][19][20]
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